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Censorship, what is it? Is it good for us or bad for us? How does sexuality portrayed in the media factor into censorship? Why should we censor? Censorship is the act of not allowing to be seen or heard anything that is obscene, libelous, or objective. This is either a single official or a committee with power to censor. Society has many forms of censorship in effect now. We have censorship in the movie industry …

…under 18 were giving birth every year. As many as 10,000 young girls age 12 or younger, become pregnant every year. (Janus 1993) All these things are influenced by no censorship in our society. Our world is not perfect but the more we can control what is put into our heads the better moral structure we have. With no controls we run rampant with our freedoms to the point of letting all moral character fly away as it were.